... country, Trump’s Secretary of State Pompeo mobilized international support for regime change through economic strangulation. To do this, a bill was tabled in the Congress, as part of the National Defense Authorization Act, which imposed sanctions on Syria.
Passed in June 2020, the bill was called the “Caesar Act”, deriving its name from a mysterious figure who claimed to have been the photographer employed by the Syrian Ministry of Defense to take photographs of victims killed in the civil war. Described as a “defector”, he delivered more than ...
... statistics: Syria surpasses all neighbouring countries in terms of COVID-19 mortality (almost 5%), while the percentage of recovered patients (slightly more than 31%) is significantly lower than that of its neighbours, excluding Jordan.
Igor Matveev:
The Caesar Act: A New Challenge for Syria?
As the territorial integrity of Syria has been disrupted, it is difficult to organise a nationwide campaign to combat the pandemic. The extremely modest numbers of cases in AANES-controlled areas and in Idlib (which are not accounted for in the ...
... evaluate and
adjust sanctions, though in recent years the EU has renewed the sanctions without significant
debate.
Given the Caesar Act’s imposition of U.S. secondary sanctions on Syria, most European
multinationals will refrain from doing business with Syria that contravenes the Caesar Act as long as
U.S. sanctions remain in place, even if the European Union suspends or lifts European sanctions on
Syria.
U.S. and European Sanctions on Syria
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... of Syria and the Region on June 30, 2020, that the Caesar Act ignores UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’s call to suspend restrictions in the face of the global coronavirus pandemic.
Along with its destructive influence on the situation inside Syria, the Caesar Act is clearly intended to scare away those who may want to invest in the country’s reconstruction efforts. This applies primarily to Washington’s Arab allies, even against the backdrop of positive signals sent to Damascus, such as the telephone ...
